SILVERSTONE, England — For the primary time in a glittering profession spanning three many years and 344 grands prix, Lewis Hamilton was moved to tears as he took the chequered flag in Sunday’s System One British Grand Prix.
In any respect of his earlier 103 grands prix victories — together with those who sealed championships and shattered information — he had saved his feelings in test. This one was completely different.
“Once I got here throughout that line, one thing launched in me that I suppose I have been holding on to for a very long time,” Hamilton defined on Sunday night at Silverstone. “It was probably the most emotional finish to a win that I’ve ever skilled. I’ve all the time questioned why I by no means cry, and I all the time thought I suppose it does not occur to me, nevertheless it hit me laborious this time.
“I feel after such a troublesome 12 months in 2021, we simply tried to proceed to come back again but additionally, we as a workforce have had a very troublesome time and there have been simply so many ideas and so many doubts in my thoughts alongside the best way, to the purpose of, at instances desirous to not proceed. So to reach and to proceed to rise up and to proceed to try to to lastly succeed, is actually the best feeling I can keep in mind having.”
His cathartic cooldown lap marked the tip of a 945-day victory drought; a winless interval courting again to the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and the ultimate throes of his heady title battle with Max Verstappen. Only a week after that 103rd profession win in Jeddah, Hamilton suffered probably the most bruising defeat of his profession when the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and an eighth world title had been ripped from his grasp.
Two and a half years on from that feverish night time, the psychological scars inflicted by the controversial actions of then-race director Michael Masi — actions the FIA later put right down to human error — are often seen. Requested if the win at Silverstone was the ultimate piece of the puzzle he wanted to lastly transfer on from the occasions of 2021, Hamilton stated, “I feel solely time will inform.”
His reply then drifted off to his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months and his ongoing love for F1, earlier than coming again to the subject at hand.
“Actually, once I got here again in 2022, I believed that I used to be over it,” he stated. “However I do know I wasn’t, and it is taken a very long time to heal that form of feeling — that is solely pure for anybody that has that have. I’ve simply been persevering with to try to work on myself and discover that inside peace day-to-day.”
The aftermath of the 2021 season occurred to coincide with the introduction of a brand new set of technical laws the next 12 months that Purple Bull mastered. Verstappen was propelled to 2 additional titles by his seemingly unbeatable Purple Bull whereas Mercedes and Hamilton wallowed in a irritating interval of trial and error.
The outcomes of the seven-time champion slumped into placing distance of an more and more aggressive midfield pack in 2022 and 2023, and even at the beginning of this season he completed no larger than seventh on the first 5 races. As he struggled with a Mercedes that was unwilling to answer his instructions however solely too desperate to catch him unexpectedly, he additionally began to struggle his personal demons.
“There’s so many instances the place you’re feeling like your greatest shot is simply not adequate,” Hamilton stated, reflecting on his 945 days with out a win. “We reside in a time when psychological well being is such a severe concern, and I am not going to lie, I’ve skilled that too. There’s undoubtedly been moments the place there was the thought that this was it, that [winning] was by no means going to occur once more.”
Though Hamilton insists his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months was unrelated to the outcomes of the previous two years, there was a rising threat previous to Sunday that he may go away Mercedes with out one other victory. As not too long ago as final 12 months, Hamilton spoke of “unfinished enterprise” with Mercedes, whereas his boss Toto Wolff stated the workforce owed him one other shot at an eighth world title.
Mercedes’ resurgence this season has come too late for Hamilton to mount a severe championship problem, nevertheless it’s clear how a lot it meant to him to win with the workforce once more earlier than heading to Maranello.
“Once we began the season, we weren’t anyplace close to wanting like we might ever get a win via the 12 months. That for me felt like it might be form of bittersweet on the finish of the season, if you happen to’ve not had one thing like at this time,” Hamilton stated. “And the truth that we have actually all come collectively, everybody’s finished such a fantastic job to get the automobile into a spot the place we’re feeling rather more snug and actually modifications from the muse from final 12 months.
“So not leaving on a low, however leaving on a excessive, which has been our objective. There’s nonetheless a protracted, lengthy option to go — the automobile is certainly not the quickest automobile on the grid proper now — however I feel we’re tremendous shut, and I feel hopefully with the following improve maybe, we will probably be in an excellent stronger place to essentially, actually be combating on the entrance extra persistently.”
Nobody within the paddock is aware of what it means to Hamilton fairly like Wolff. The Mercedes workforce principal has witnessed firsthand the depths of his workforce’s struggles, and in his twelfth season working alongside Hamilton, he understands the toll all of it has taken on his star driver.
Lewis Hamilton ‘perpetually grateful’ to Mercedes after emotional win
An emotional Lewis Hamilton displays on his current struggles after securing his first race win since 2021 with a victory on the British Grand Prix.
“It was so troublesome over the past two years that we could not actually discover efficiency, we could not give the drivers a automobile that was in a position to go for the victories,” Wolff stated. “And to make him win once more, the British Grand Prix, in his final race for Mercedes right here, it is virtually like slightly fairytale.”
Hamilton’s win additionally served as a reminder of simply how good he might be when a shot at victory is on the road. Current performances relative to teammate George Russell (who now solely leads Hamilton by a single level within the drivers’ championship) led some to query his motivation, however his capability to carry off Verstappen and Lando Norris within the last stint of the race was a reminder of the ability and willpower of the seven-time champion.
It is maybe no shock this one meant greater than the earlier 103.
“That is the longest stint that I’ve not had a win, 945 days, and a number of emotion has collected over that point,” Hamilton stated. “So this one feels prefer it may very well be probably the most particular ones for me … if not probably the most particular one.”
SILVERSTONE, England — For the primary time in a glittering profession spanning three many years and 344 grands prix, Lewis Hamilton was moved to tears as he took the chequered flag in Sunday’s System One British Grand Prix.
In any respect of his earlier 103 grands prix victories — together with those who sealed championships and shattered information — he had saved his feelings in test. This one was completely different.
“Once I got here throughout that line, one thing launched in me that I suppose I have been holding on to for a very long time,” Hamilton defined on Sunday night at Silverstone. “It was probably the most emotional finish to a win that I’ve ever skilled. I’ve all the time questioned why I by no means cry, and I all the time thought I suppose it does not occur to me, nevertheless it hit me laborious this time.
“I feel after such a troublesome 12 months in 2021, we simply tried to proceed to come back again but additionally, we as a workforce have had a very troublesome time and there have been simply so many ideas and so many doubts in my thoughts alongside the best way, to the purpose of, at instances desirous to not proceed. So to reach and to proceed to rise up and to proceed to try to to lastly succeed, is actually the best feeling I can keep in mind having.”
His cathartic cooldown lap marked the tip of a 945-day victory drought; a winless interval courting again to the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and the ultimate throes of his heady title battle with Max Verstappen. Only a week after that 103rd profession win in Jeddah, Hamilton suffered probably the most bruising defeat of his profession when the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and an eighth world title had been ripped from his grasp.
Two and a half years on from that feverish night time, the psychological scars inflicted by the controversial actions of then-race director Michael Masi — actions the FIA later put right down to human error — are often seen. Requested if the win at Silverstone was the ultimate piece of the puzzle he wanted to lastly transfer on from the occasions of 2021, Hamilton stated, “I feel solely time will inform.”
His reply then drifted off to his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months and his ongoing love for F1, earlier than coming again to the subject at hand.
“Actually, once I got here again in 2022, I believed that I used to be over it,” he stated. “However I do know I wasn’t, and it is taken a very long time to heal that form of feeling — that is solely pure for anybody that has that have. I’ve simply been persevering with to try to work on myself and discover that inside peace day-to-day.”
The aftermath of the 2021 season occurred to coincide with the introduction of a brand new set of technical laws the next 12 months that Purple Bull mastered. Verstappen was propelled to 2 additional titles by his seemingly unbeatable Purple Bull whereas Mercedes and Hamilton wallowed in a irritating interval of trial and error.
The outcomes of the seven-time champion slumped into placing distance of an more and more aggressive midfield pack in 2022 and 2023, and even at the beginning of this season he completed no larger than seventh on the first 5 races. As he struggled with a Mercedes that was unwilling to answer his instructions however solely too desperate to catch him unexpectedly, he additionally began to struggle his personal demons.
“There’s so many instances the place you’re feeling like your greatest shot is simply not adequate,” Hamilton stated, reflecting on his 945 days with out a win. “We reside in a time when psychological well being is such a severe concern, and I am not going to lie, I’ve skilled that too. There’s undoubtedly been moments the place there was the thought that this was it, that [winning] was by no means going to occur once more.”
Though Hamilton insists his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months was unrelated to the outcomes of the previous two years, there was a rising threat previous to Sunday that he may go away Mercedes with out one other victory. As not too long ago as final 12 months, Hamilton spoke of “unfinished enterprise” with Mercedes, whereas his boss Toto Wolff stated the workforce owed him one other shot at an eighth world title.
Mercedes’ resurgence this season has come too late for Hamilton to mount a severe championship problem, nevertheless it’s clear how a lot it meant to him to win with the workforce once more earlier than heading to Maranello.
“Once we began the season, we weren’t anyplace close to wanting like we might ever get a win via the 12 months. That for me felt like it might be form of bittersweet on the finish of the season, if you happen to’ve not had one thing like at this time,” Hamilton stated. “And the truth that we have actually all come collectively, everybody’s finished such a fantastic job to get the automobile into a spot the place we’re feeling rather more snug and actually modifications from the muse from final 12 months.
“So not leaving on a low, however leaving on a excessive, which has been our objective. There’s nonetheless a protracted, lengthy option to go — the automobile is certainly not the quickest automobile on the grid proper now — however I feel we’re tremendous shut, and I feel hopefully with the following improve maybe, we will probably be in an excellent stronger place to essentially, actually be combating on the entrance extra persistently.”
Nobody within the paddock is aware of what it means to Hamilton fairly like Wolff. The Mercedes workforce principal has witnessed firsthand the depths of his workforce’s struggles, and in his twelfth season working alongside Hamilton, he understands the toll all of it has taken on his star driver.
Lewis Hamilton ‘perpetually grateful’ to Mercedes after emotional win
An emotional Lewis Hamilton displays on his current struggles after securing his first race win since 2021 with a victory on the British Grand Prix.
“It was so troublesome over the past two years that we could not actually discover efficiency, we could not give the drivers a automobile that was in a position to go for the victories,” Wolff stated. “And to make him win once more, the British Grand Prix, in his final race for Mercedes right here, it is virtually like slightly fairytale.”
Hamilton’s win additionally served as a reminder of simply how good he might be when a shot at victory is on the road. Current performances relative to teammate George Russell (who now solely leads Hamilton by a single level within the drivers’ championship) led some to query his motivation, however his capability to carry off Verstappen and Lando Norris within the last stint of the race was a reminder of the ability and willpower of the seven-time champion.
It is maybe no shock this one meant greater than the earlier 103.
“That is the longest stint that I’ve not had a win, 945 days, and a number of emotion has collected over that point,” Hamilton stated. “So this one feels prefer it may very well be probably the most particular ones for me … if not probably the most particular one.”
SILVERSTONE, England — For the primary time in a glittering profession spanning three many years and 344 grands prix, Lewis Hamilton was moved to tears as he took the chequered flag in Sunday’s System One British Grand Prix.
In any respect of his earlier 103 grands prix victories — together with those who sealed championships and shattered information — he had saved his feelings in test. This one was completely different.
“Once I got here throughout that line, one thing launched in me that I suppose I have been holding on to for a very long time,” Hamilton defined on Sunday night at Silverstone. “It was probably the most emotional finish to a win that I’ve ever skilled. I’ve all the time questioned why I by no means cry, and I all the time thought I suppose it does not occur to me, nevertheless it hit me laborious this time.
“I feel after such a troublesome 12 months in 2021, we simply tried to proceed to come back again but additionally, we as a workforce have had a very troublesome time and there have been simply so many ideas and so many doubts in my thoughts alongside the best way, to the purpose of, at instances desirous to not proceed. So to reach and to proceed to rise up and to proceed to try to to lastly succeed, is actually the best feeling I can keep in mind having.”
His cathartic cooldown lap marked the tip of a 945-day victory drought; a winless interval courting again to the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and the ultimate throes of his heady title battle with Max Verstappen. Only a week after that 103rd profession win in Jeddah, Hamilton suffered probably the most bruising defeat of his profession when the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and an eighth world title had been ripped from his grasp.
Two and a half years on from that feverish night time, the psychological scars inflicted by the controversial actions of then-race director Michael Masi — actions the FIA later put right down to human error — are often seen. Requested if the win at Silverstone was the ultimate piece of the puzzle he wanted to lastly transfer on from the occasions of 2021, Hamilton stated, “I feel solely time will inform.”
His reply then drifted off to his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months and his ongoing love for F1, earlier than coming again to the subject at hand.
“Actually, once I got here again in 2022, I believed that I used to be over it,” he stated. “However I do know I wasn’t, and it is taken a very long time to heal that form of feeling — that is solely pure for anybody that has that have. I’ve simply been persevering with to try to work on myself and discover that inside peace day-to-day.”
The aftermath of the 2021 season occurred to coincide with the introduction of a brand new set of technical laws the next 12 months that Purple Bull mastered. Verstappen was propelled to 2 additional titles by his seemingly unbeatable Purple Bull whereas Mercedes and Hamilton wallowed in a irritating interval of trial and error.
The outcomes of the seven-time champion slumped into placing distance of an more and more aggressive midfield pack in 2022 and 2023, and even at the beginning of this season he completed no larger than seventh on the first 5 races. As he struggled with a Mercedes that was unwilling to answer his instructions however solely too desperate to catch him unexpectedly, he additionally began to struggle his personal demons.
“There’s so many instances the place you’re feeling like your greatest shot is simply not adequate,” Hamilton stated, reflecting on his 945 days with out a win. “We reside in a time when psychological well being is such a severe concern, and I am not going to lie, I’ve skilled that too. There’s undoubtedly been moments the place there was the thought that this was it, that [winning] was by no means going to occur once more.”
Though Hamilton insists his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months was unrelated to the outcomes of the previous two years, there was a rising threat previous to Sunday that he may go away Mercedes with out one other victory. As not too long ago as final 12 months, Hamilton spoke of “unfinished enterprise” with Mercedes, whereas his boss Toto Wolff stated the workforce owed him one other shot at an eighth world title.
Mercedes’ resurgence this season has come too late for Hamilton to mount a severe championship problem, nevertheless it’s clear how a lot it meant to him to win with the workforce once more earlier than heading to Maranello.
“Once we began the season, we weren’t anyplace close to wanting like we might ever get a win via the 12 months. That for me felt like it might be form of bittersweet on the finish of the season, if you happen to’ve not had one thing like at this time,” Hamilton stated. “And the truth that we have actually all come collectively, everybody’s finished such a fantastic job to get the automobile into a spot the place we’re feeling rather more snug and actually modifications from the muse from final 12 months.
“So not leaving on a low, however leaving on a excessive, which has been our objective. There’s nonetheless a protracted, lengthy option to go — the automobile is certainly not the quickest automobile on the grid proper now — however I feel we’re tremendous shut, and I feel hopefully with the following improve maybe, we will probably be in an excellent stronger place to essentially, actually be combating on the entrance extra persistently.”
Nobody within the paddock is aware of what it means to Hamilton fairly like Wolff. The Mercedes workforce principal has witnessed firsthand the depths of his workforce’s struggles, and in his twelfth season working alongside Hamilton, he understands the toll all of it has taken on his star driver.
Lewis Hamilton ‘perpetually grateful’ to Mercedes after emotional win
An emotional Lewis Hamilton displays on his current struggles after securing his first race win since 2021 with a victory on the British Grand Prix.
“It was so troublesome over the past two years that we could not actually discover efficiency, we could not give the drivers a automobile that was in a position to go for the victories,” Wolff stated. “And to make him win once more, the British Grand Prix, in his final race for Mercedes right here, it is virtually like slightly fairytale.”
Hamilton’s win additionally served as a reminder of simply how good he might be when a shot at victory is on the road. Current performances relative to teammate George Russell (who now solely leads Hamilton by a single level within the drivers’ championship) led some to query his motivation, however his capability to carry off Verstappen and Lando Norris within the last stint of the race was a reminder of the ability and willpower of the seven-time champion.
It is maybe no shock this one meant greater than the earlier 103.
“That is the longest stint that I’ve not had a win, 945 days, and a number of emotion has collected over that point,” Hamilton stated. “So this one feels prefer it may very well be probably the most particular ones for me … if not probably the most particular one.”
SILVERSTONE, England — For the primary time in a glittering profession spanning three many years and 344 grands prix, Lewis Hamilton was moved to tears as he took the chequered flag in Sunday’s System One British Grand Prix.
In any respect of his earlier 103 grands prix victories — together with those who sealed championships and shattered information — he had saved his feelings in test. This one was completely different.
“Once I got here throughout that line, one thing launched in me that I suppose I have been holding on to for a very long time,” Hamilton defined on Sunday night at Silverstone. “It was probably the most emotional finish to a win that I’ve ever skilled. I’ve all the time questioned why I by no means cry, and I all the time thought I suppose it does not occur to me, nevertheless it hit me laborious this time.
“I feel after such a troublesome 12 months in 2021, we simply tried to proceed to come back again but additionally, we as a workforce have had a very troublesome time and there have been simply so many ideas and so many doubts in my thoughts alongside the best way, to the purpose of, at instances desirous to not proceed. So to reach and to proceed to rise up and to proceed to try to to lastly succeed, is actually the best feeling I can keep in mind having.”
His cathartic cooldown lap marked the tip of a 945-day victory drought; a winless interval courting again to the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and the ultimate throes of his heady title battle with Max Verstappen. Only a week after that 103rd profession win in Jeddah, Hamilton suffered probably the most bruising defeat of his profession when the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and an eighth world title had been ripped from his grasp.
Two and a half years on from that feverish night time, the psychological scars inflicted by the controversial actions of then-race director Michael Masi — actions the FIA later put right down to human error — are often seen. Requested if the win at Silverstone was the ultimate piece of the puzzle he wanted to lastly transfer on from the occasions of 2021, Hamilton stated, “I feel solely time will inform.”
His reply then drifted off to his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months and his ongoing love for F1, earlier than coming again to the subject at hand.
“Actually, once I got here again in 2022, I believed that I used to be over it,” he stated. “However I do know I wasn’t, and it is taken a very long time to heal that form of feeling — that is solely pure for anybody that has that have. I’ve simply been persevering with to try to work on myself and discover that inside peace day-to-day.”
The aftermath of the 2021 season occurred to coincide with the introduction of a brand new set of technical laws the next 12 months that Purple Bull mastered. Verstappen was propelled to 2 additional titles by his seemingly unbeatable Purple Bull whereas Mercedes and Hamilton wallowed in a irritating interval of trial and error.
The outcomes of the seven-time champion slumped into placing distance of an more and more aggressive midfield pack in 2022 and 2023, and even at the beginning of this season he completed no larger than seventh on the first 5 races. As he struggled with a Mercedes that was unwilling to answer his instructions however solely too desperate to catch him unexpectedly, he additionally began to struggle his personal demons.
“There’s so many instances the place you’re feeling like your greatest shot is simply not adequate,” Hamilton stated, reflecting on his 945 days with out a win. “We reside in a time when psychological well being is such a severe concern, and I am not going to lie, I’ve skilled that too. There’s undoubtedly been moments the place there was the thought that this was it, that [winning] was by no means going to occur once more.”
Though Hamilton insists his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months was unrelated to the outcomes of the previous two years, there was a rising threat previous to Sunday that he may go away Mercedes with out one other victory. As not too long ago as final 12 months, Hamilton spoke of “unfinished enterprise” with Mercedes, whereas his boss Toto Wolff stated the workforce owed him one other shot at an eighth world title.
Mercedes’ resurgence this season has come too late for Hamilton to mount a severe championship problem, nevertheless it’s clear how a lot it meant to him to win with the workforce once more earlier than heading to Maranello.
“Once we began the season, we weren’t anyplace close to wanting like we might ever get a win via the 12 months. That for me felt like it might be form of bittersweet on the finish of the season, if you happen to’ve not had one thing like at this time,” Hamilton stated. “And the truth that we have actually all come collectively, everybody’s finished such a fantastic job to get the automobile into a spot the place we’re feeling rather more snug and actually modifications from the muse from final 12 months.
“So not leaving on a low, however leaving on a excessive, which has been our objective. There’s nonetheless a protracted, lengthy option to go — the automobile is certainly not the quickest automobile on the grid proper now — however I feel we’re tremendous shut, and I feel hopefully with the following improve maybe, we will probably be in an excellent stronger place to essentially, actually be combating on the entrance extra persistently.”
Nobody within the paddock is aware of what it means to Hamilton fairly like Wolff. The Mercedes workforce principal has witnessed firsthand the depths of his workforce’s struggles, and in his twelfth season working alongside Hamilton, he understands the toll all of it has taken on his star driver.
Lewis Hamilton ‘perpetually grateful’ to Mercedes after emotional win
An emotional Lewis Hamilton displays on his current struggles after securing his first race win since 2021 with a victory on the British Grand Prix.
“It was so troublesome over the past two years that we could not actually discover efficiency, we could not give the drivers a automobile that was in a position to go for the victories,” Wolff stated. “And to make him win once more, the British Grand Prix, in his final race for Mercedes right here, it is virtually like slightly fairytale.”
Hamilton’s win additionally served as a reminder of simply how good he might be when a shot at victory is on the road. Current performances relative to teammate George Russell (who now solely leads Hamilton by a single level within the drivers’ championship) led some to query his motivation, however his capability to carry off Verstappen and Lando Norris within the last stint of the race was a reminder of the ability and willpower of the seven-time champion.
It is maybe no shock this one meant greater than the earlier 103.
“That is the longest stint that I’ve not had a win, 945 days, and a number of emotion has collected over that point,” Hamilton stated. “So this one feels prefer it may very well be probably the most particular ones for me … if not probably the most particular one.”
SILVERSTONE, England — For the primary time in a glittering profession spanning three many years and 344 grands prix, Lewis Hamilton was moved to tears as he took the chequered flag in Sunday’s System One British Grand Prix.
In any respect of his earlier 103 grands prix victories — together with those who sealed championships and shattered information — he had saved his feelings in test. This one was completely different.
“Once I got here throughout that line, one thing launched in me that I suppose I have been holding on to for a very long time,” Hamilton defined on Sunday night at Silverstone. “It was probably the most emotional finish to a win that I’ve ever skilled. I’ve all the time questioned why I by no means cry, and I all the time thought I suppose it does not occur to me, nevertheless it hit me laborious this time.
“I feel after such a troublesome 12 months in 2021, we simply tried to proceed to come back again but additionally, we as a workforce have had a very troublesome time and there have been simply so many ideas and so many doubts in my thoughts alongside the best way, to the purpose of, at instances desirous to not proceed. So to reach and to proceed to rise up and to proceed to try to to lastly succeed, is actually the best feeling I can keep in mind having.”
His cathartic cooldown lap marked the tip of a 945-day victory drought; a winless interval courting again to the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and the ultimate throes of his heady title battle with Max Verstappen. Only a week after that 103rd profession win in Jeddah, Hamilton suffered probably the most bruising defeat of his profession when the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and an eighth world title had been ripped from his grasp.
Two and a half years on from that feverish night time, the psychological scars inflicted by the controversial actions of then-race director Michael Masi — actions the FIA later put right down to human error — are often seen. Requested if the win at Silverstone was the ultimate piece of the puzzle he wanted to lastly transfer on from the occasions of 2021, Hamilton stated, “I feel solely time will inform.”
His reply then drifted off to his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months and his ongoing love for F1, earlier than coming again to the subject at hand.
“Actually, once I got here again in 2022, I believed that I used to be over it,” he stated. “However I do know I wasn’t, and it is taken a very long time to heal that form of feeling — that is solely pure for anybody that has that have. I’ve simply been persevering with to try to work on myself and discover that inside peace day-to-day.”
The aftermath of the 2021 season occurred to coincide with the introduction of a brand new set of technical laws the next 12 months that Purple Bull mastered. Verstappen was propelled to 2 additional titles by his seemingly unbeatable Purple Bull whereas Mercedes and Hamilton wallowed in a irritating interval of trial and error.
The outcomes of the seven-time champion slumped into placing distance of an more and more aggressive midfield pack in 2022 and 2023, and even at the beginning of this season he completed no larger than seventh on the first 5 races. As he struggled with a Mercedes that was unwilling to answer his instructions however solely too desperate to catch him unexpectedly, he additionally began to struggle his personal demons.
“There’s so many instances the place you’re feeling like your greatest shot is simply not adequate,” Hamilton stated, reflecting on his 945 days with out a win. “We reside in a time when psychological well being is such a severe concern, and I am not going to lie, I’ve skilled that too. There’s undoubtedly been moments the place there was the thought that this was it, that [winning] was by no means going to occur once more.”
Though Hamilton insists his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months was unrelated to the outcomes of the previous two years, there was a rising threat previous to Sunday that he may go away Mercedes with out one other victory. As not too long ago as final 12 months, Hamilton spoke of “unfinished enterprise” with Mercedes, whereas his boss Toto Wolff stated the workforce owed him one other shot at an eighth world title.
Mercedes’ resurgence this season has come too late for Hamilton to mount a severe championship problem, nevertheless it’s clear how a lot it meant to him to win with the workforce once more earlier than heading to Maranello.
“Once we began the season, we weren’t anyplace close to wanting like we might ever get a win via the 12 months. That for me felt like it might be form of bittersweet on the finish of the season, if you happen to’ve not had one thing like at this time,” Hamilton stated. “And the truth that we have actually all come collectively, everybody’s finished such a fantastic job to get the automobile into a spot the place we’re feeling rather more snug and actually modifications from the muse from final 12 months.
“So not leaving on a low, however leaving on a excessive, which has been our objective. There’s nonetheless a protracted, lengthy option to go — the automobile is certainly not the quickest automobile on the grid proper now — however I feel we’re tremendous shut, and I feel hopefully with the following improve maybe, we will probably be in an excellent stronger place to essentially, actually be combating on the entrance extra persistently.”
Nobody within the paddock is aware of what it means to Hamilton fairly like Wolff. The Mercedes workforce principal has witnessed firsthand the depths of his workforce’s struggles, and in his twelfth season working alongside Hamilton, he understands the toll all of it has taken on his star driver.
Lewis Hamilton ‘perpetually grateful’ to Mercedes after emotional win
An emotional Lewis Hamilton displays on his current struggles after securing his first race win since 2021 with a victory on the British Grand Prix.
“It was so troublesome over the past two years that we could not actually discover efficiency, we could not give the drivers a automobile that was in a position to go for the victories,” Wolff stated. “And to make him win once more, the British Grand Prix, in his final race for Mercedes right here, it is virtually like slightly fairytale.”
Hamilton’s win additionally served as a reminder of simply how good he might be when a shot at victory is on the road. Current performances relative to teammate George Russell (who now solely leads Hamilton by a single level within the drivers’ championship) led some to query his motivation, however his capability to carry off Verstappen and Lando Norris within the last stint of the race was a reminder of the ability and willpower of the seven-time champion.
It is maybe no shock this one meant greater than the earlier 103.
“That is the longest stint that I’ve not had a win, 945 days, and a number of emotion has collected over that point,” Hamilton stated. “So this one feels prefer it may very well be probably the most particular ones for me … if not probably the most particular one.”
SILVERSTONE, England — For the primary time in a glittering profession spanning three many years and 344 grands prix, Lewis Hamilton was moved to tears as he took the chequered flag in Sunday’s System One British Grand Prix.
In any respect of his earlier 103 grands prix victories — together with those who sealed championships and shattered information — he had saved his feelings in test. This one was completely different.
“Once I got here throughout that line, one thing launched in me that I suppose I have been holding on to for a very long time,” Hamilton defined on Sunday night at Silverstone. “It was probably the most emotional finish to a win that I’ve ever skilled. I’ve all the time questioned why I by no means cry, and I all the time thought I suppose it does not occur to me, nevertheless it hit me laborious this time.
“I feel after such a troublesome 12 months in 2021, we simply tried to proceed to come back again but additionally, we as a workforce have had a very troublesome time and there have been simply so many ideas and so many doubts in my thoughts alongside the best way, to the purpose of, at instances desirous to not proceed. So to reach and to proceed to rise up and to proceed to try to to lastly succeed, is actually the best feeling I can keep in mind having.”
His cathartic cooldown lap marked the tip of a 945-day victory drought; a winless interval courting again to the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and the ultimate throes of his heady title battle with Max Verstappen. Only a week after that 103rd profession win in Jeddah, Hamilton suffered probably the most bruising defeat of his profession when the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and an eighth world title had been ripped from his grasp.
Two and a half years on from that feverish night time, the psychological scars inflicted by the controversial actions of then-race director Michael Masi — actions the FIA later put right down to human error — are often seen. Requested if the win at Silverstone was the ultimate piece of the puzzle he wanted to lastly transfer on from the occasions of 2021, Hamilton stated, “I feel solely time will inform.”
His reply then drifted off to his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months and his ongoing love for F1, earlier than coming again to the subject at hand.
“Actually, once I got here again in 2022, I believed that I used to be over it,” he stated. “However I do know I wasn’t, and it is taken a very long time to heal that form of feeling — that is solely pure for anybody that has that have. I’ve simply been persevering with to try to work on myself and discover that inside peace day-to-day.”
The aftermath of the 2021 season occurred to coincide with the introduction of a brand new set of technical laws the next 12 months that Purple Bull mastered. Verstappen was propelled to 2 additional titles by his seemingly unbeatable Purple Bull whereas Mercedes and Hamilton wallowed in a irritating interval of trial and error.
The outcomes of the seven-time champion slumped into placing distance of an more and more aggressive midfield pack in 2022 and 2023, and even at the beginning of this season he completed no larger than seventh on the first 5 races. As he struggled with a Mercedes that was unwilling to answer his instructions however solely too desperate to catch him unexpectedly, he additionally began to struggle his personal demons.
“There’s so many instances the place you’re feeling like your greatest shot is simply not adequate,” Hamilton stated, reflecting on his 945 days with out a win. “We reside in a time when psychological well being is such a severe concern, and I am not going to lie, I’ve skilled that too. There’s undoubtedly been moments the place there was the thought that this was it, that [winning] was by no means going to occur once more.”
Though Hamilton insists his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months was unrelated to the outcomes of the previous two years, there was a rising threat previous to Sunday that he may go away Mercedes with out one other victory. As not too long ago as final 12 months, Hamilton spoke of “unfinished enterprise” with Mercedes, whereas his boss Toto Wolff stated the workforce owed him one other shot at an eighth world title.
Mercedes’ resurgence this season has come too late for Hamilton to mount a severe championship problem, nevertheless it’s clear how a lot it meant to him to win with the workforce once more earlier than heading to Maranello.
“Once we began the season, we weren’t anyplace close to wanting like we might ever get a win via the 12 months. That for me felt like it might be form of bittersweet on the finish of the season, if you happen to’ve not had one thing like at this time,” Hamilton stated. “And the truth that we have actually all come collectively, everybody’s finished such a fantastic job to get the automobile into a spot the place we’re feeling rather more snug and actually modifications from the muse from final 12 months.
“So not leaving on a low, however leaving on a excessive, which has been our objective. There’s nonetheless a protracted, lengthy option to go — the automobile is certainly not the quickest automobile on the grid proper now — however I feel we’re tremendous shut, and I feel hopefully with the following improve maybe, we will probably be in an excellent stronger place to essentially, actually be combating on the entrance extra persistently.”
Nobody within the paddock is aware of what it means to Hamilton fairly like Wolff. The Mercedes workforce principal has witnessed firsthand the depths of his workforce’s struggles, and in his twelfth season working alongside Hamilton, he understands the toll all of it has taken on his star driver.
Lewis Hamilton ‘perpetually grateful’ to Mercedes after emotional win
An emotional Lewis Hamilton displays on his current struggles after securing his first race win since 2021 with a victory on the British Grand Prix.
“It was so troublesome over the past two years that we could not actually discover efficiency, we could not give the drivers a automobile that was in a position to go for the victories,” Wolff stated. “And to make him win once more, the British Grand Prix, in his final race for Mercedes right here, it is virtually like slightly fairytale.”
Hamilton’s win additionally served as a reminder of simply how good he might be when a shot at victory is on the road. Current performances relative to teammate George Russell (who now solely leads Hamilton by a single level within the drivers’ championship) led some to query his motivation, however his capability to carry off Verstappen and Lando Norris within the last stint of the race was a reminder of the ability and willpower of the seven-time champion.
It is maybe no shock this one meant greater than the earlier 103.
“That is the longest stint that I’ve not had a win, 945 days, and a number of emotion has collected over that point,” Hamilton stated. “So this one feels prefer it may very well be probably the most particular ones for me … if not probably the most particular one.”
SILVERSTONE, England — For the primary time in a glittering profession spanning three many years and 344 grands prix, Lewis Hamilton was moved to tears as he took the chequered flag in Sunday’s System One British Grand Prix.
In any respect of his earlier 103 grands prix victories — together with those who sealed championships and shattered information — he had saved his feelings in test. This one was completely different.
“Once I got here throughout that line, one thing launched in me that I suppose I have been holding on to for a very long time,” Hamilton defined on Sunday night at Silverstone. “It was probably the most emotional finish to a win that I’ve ever skilled. I’ve all the time questioned why I by no means cry, and I all the time thought I suppose it does not occur to me, nevertheless it hit me laborious this time.
“I feel after such a troublesome 12 months in 2021, we simply tried to proceed to come back again but additionally, we as a workforce have had a very troublesome time and there have been simply so many ideas and so many doubts in my thoughts alongside the best way, to the purpose of, at instances desirous to not proceed. So to reach and to proceed to rise up and to proceed to try to to lastly succeed, is actually the best feeling I can keep in mind having.”
His cathartic cooldown lap marked the tip of a 945-day victory drought; a winless interval courting again to the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and the ultimate throes of his heady title battle with Max Verstappen. Only a week after that 103rd profession win in Jeddah, Hamilton suffered probably the most bruising defeat of his profession when the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and an eighth world title had been ripped from his grasp.
Two and a half years on from that feverish night time, the psychological scars inflicted by the controversial actions of then-race director Michael Masi — actions the FIA later put right down to human error — are often seen. Requested if the win at Silverstone was the ultimate piece of the puzzle he wanted to lastly transfer on from the occasions of 2021, Hamilton stated, “I feel solely time will inform.”
His reply then drifted off to his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months and his ongoing love for F1, earlier than coming again to the subject at hand.
“Actually, once I got here again in 2022, I believed that I used to be over it,” he stated. “However I do know I wasn’t, and it is taken a very long time to heal that form of feeling — that is solely pure for anybody that has that have. I’ve simply been persevering with to try to work on myself and discover that inside peace day-to-day.”
The aftermath of the 2021 season occurred to coincide with the introduction of a brand new set of technical laws the next 12 months that Purple Bull mastered. Verstappen was propelled to 2 additional titles by his seemingly unbeatable Purple Bull whereas Mercedes and Hamilton wallowed in a irritating interval of trial and error.
The outcomes of the seven-time champion slumped into placing distance of an more and more aggressive midfield pack in 2022 and 2023, and even at the beginning of this season he completed no larger than seventh on the first 5 races. As he struggled with a Mercedes that was unwilling to answer his instructions however solely too desperate to catch him unexpectedly, he additionally began to struggle his personal demons.
“There’s so many instances the place you’re feeling like your greatest shot is simply not adequate,” Hamilton stated, reflecting on his 945 days with out a win. “We reside in a time when psychological well being is such a severe concern, and I am not going to lie, I’ve skilled that too. There’s undoubtedly been moments the place there was the thought that this was it, that [winning] was by no means going to occur once more.”
Though Hamilton insists his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months was unrelated to the outcomes of the previous two years, there was a rising threat previous to Sunday that he may go away Mercedes with out one other victory. As not too long ago as final 12 months, Hamilton spoke of “unfinished enterprise” with Mercedes, whereas his boss Toto Wolff stated the workforce owed him one other shot at an eighth world title.
Mercedes’ resurgence this season has come too late for Hamilton to mount a severe championship problem, nevertheless it’s clear how a lot it meant to him to win with the workforce once more earlier than heading to Maranello.
“Once we began the season, we weren’t anyplace close to wanting like we might ever get a win via the 12 months. That for me felt like it might be form of bittersweet on the finish of the season, if you happen to’ve not had one thing like at this time,” Hamilton stated. “And the truth that we have actually all come collectively, everybody’s finished such a fantastic job to get the automobile into a spot the place we’re feeling rather more snug and actually modifications from the muse from final 12 months.
“So not leaving on a low, however leaving on a excessive, which has been our objective. There’s nonetheless a protracted, lengthy option to go — the automobile is certainly not the quickest automobile on the grid proper now — however I feel we’re tremendous shut, and I feel hopefully with the following improve maybe, we will probably be in an excellent stronger place to essentially, actually be combating on the entrance extra persistently.”
Nobody within the paddock is aware of what it means to Hamilton fairly like Wolff. The Mercedes workforce principal has witnessed firsthand the depths of his workforce’s struggles, and in his twelfth season working alongside Hamilton, he understands the toll all of it has taken on his star driver.
Lewis Hamilton ‘perpetually grateful’ to Mercedes after emotional win
An emotional Lewis Hamilton displays on his current struggles after securing his first race win since 2021 with a victory on the British Grand Prix.
“It was so troublesome over the past two years that we could not actually discover efficiency, we could not give the drivers a automobile that was in a position to go for the victories,” Wolff stated. “And to make him win once more, the British Grand Prix, in his final race for Mercedes right here, it is virtually like slightly fairytale.”
Hamilton’s win additionally served as a reminder of simply how good he might be when a shot at victory is on the road. Current performances relative to teammate George Russell (who now solely leads Hamilton by a single level within the drivers’ championship) led some to query his motivation, however his capability to carry off Verstappen and Lando Norris within the last stint of the race was a reminder of the ability and willpower of the seven-time champion.
It is maybe no shock this one meant greater than the earlier 103.
“That is the longest stint that I’ve not had a win, 945 days, and a number of emotion has collected over that point,” Hamilton stated. “So this one feels prefer it may very well be probably the most particular ones for me … if not probably the most particular one.”
SILVERSTONE, England — For the primary time in a glittering profession spanning three many years and 344 grands prix, Lewis Hamilton was moved to tears as he took the chequered flag in Sunday’s System One British Grand Prix.
In any respect of his earlier 103 grands prix victories — together with those who sealed championships and shattered information — he had saved his feelings in test. This one was completely different.
“Once I got here throughout that line, one thing launched in me that I suppose I have been holding on to for a very long time,” Hamilton defined on Sunday night at Silverstone. “It was probably the most emotional finish to a win that I’ve ever skilled. I’ve all the time questioned why I by no means cry, and I all the time thought I suppose it does not occur to me, nevertheless it hit me laborious this time.
“I feel after such a troublesome 12 months in 2021, we simply tried to proceed to come back again but additionally, we as a workforce have had a very troublesome time and there have been simply so many ideas and so many doubts in my thoughts alongside the best way, to the purpose of, at instances desirous to not proceed. So to reach and to proceed to rise up and to proceed to try to to lastly succeed, is actually the best feeling I can keep in mind having.”
His cathartic cooldown lap marked the tip of a 945-day victory drought; a winless interval courting again to the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and the ultimate throes of his heady title battle with Max Verstappen. Only a week after that 103rd profession win in Jeddah, Hamilton suffered probably the most bruising defeat of his profession when the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and an eighth world title had been ripped from his grasp.
Two and a half years on from that feverish night time, the psychological scars inflicted by the controversial actions of then-race director Michael Masi — actions the FIA later put right down to human error — are often seen. Requested if the win at Silverstone was the ultimate piece of the puzzle he wanted to lastly transfer on from the occasions of 2021, Hamilton stated, “I feel solely time will inform.”
His reply then drifted off to his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months and his ongoing love for F1, earlier than coming again to the subject at hand.
“Actually, once I got here again in 2022, I believed that I used to be over it,” he stated. “However I do know I wasn’t, and it is taken a very long time to heal that form of feeling — that is solely pure for anybody that has that have. I’ve simply been persevering with to try to work on myself and discover that inside peace day-to-day.”
The aftermath of the 2021 season occurred to coincide with the introduction of a brand new set of technical laws the next 12 months that Purple Bull mastered. Verstappen was propelled to 2 additional titles by his seemingly unbeatable Purple Bull whereas Mercedes and Hamilton wallowed in a irritating interval of trial and error.
The outcomes of the seven-time champion slumped into placing distance of an more and more aggressive midfield pack in 2022 and 2023, and even at the beginning of this season he completed no larger than seventh on the first 5 races. As he struggled with a Mercedes that was unwilling to answer his instructions however solely too desperate to catch him unexpectedly, he additionally began to struggle his personal demons.
“There’s so many instances the place you’re feeling like your greatest shot is simply not adequate,” Hamilton stated, reflecting on his 945 days with out a win. “We reside in a time when psychological well being is such a severe concern, and I am not going to lie, I’ve skilled that too. There’s undoubtedly been moments the place there was the thought that this was it, that [winning] was by no means going to occur once more.”
Though Hamilton insists his resolution to maneuver to Ferrari subsequent 12 months was unrelated to the outcomes of the previous two years, there was a rising threat previous to Sunday that he may go away Mercedes with out one other victory. As not too long ago as final 12 months, Hamilton spoke of “unfinished enterprise” with Mercedes, whereas his boss Toto Wolff stated the workforce owed him one other shot at an eighth world title.
Mercedes’ resurgence this season has come too late for Hamilton to mount a severe championship problem, nevertheless it’s clear how a lot it meant to him to win with the workforce once more earlier than heading to Maranello.
“Once we began the season, we weren’t anyplace close to wanting like we might ever get a win via the 12 months. That for me felt like it might be form of bittersweet on the finish of the season, if you happen to’ve not had one thing like at this time,” Hamilton stated. “And the truth that we have actually all come collectively, everybody’s finished such a fantastic job to get the automobile into a spot the place we’re feeling rather more snug and actually modifications from the muse from final 12 months.
“So not leaving on a low, however leaving on a excessive, which has been our objective. There’s nonetheless a protracted, lengthy option to go — the automobile is certainly not the quickest automobile on the grid proper now — however I feel we’re tremendous shut, and I feel hopefully with the following improve maybe, we will probably be in an excellent stronger place to essentially, actually be combating on the entrance extra persistently.”
Nobody within the paddock is aware of what it means to Hamilton fairly like Wolff. The Mercedes workforce principal has witnessed firsthand the depths of his workforce’s struggles, and in his twelfth season working alongside Hamilton, he understands the toll all of it has taken on his star driver.
Lewis Hamilton ‘perpetually grateful’ to Mercedes after emotional win
An emotional Lewis Hamilton displays on his current struggles after securing his first race win since 2021 with a victory on the British Grand Prix.
“It was so troublesome over the past two years that we could not actually discover efficiency, we could not give the drivers a automobile that was in a position to go for the victories,” Wolff stated. “And to make him win once more, the British Grand Prix, in his final race for Mercedes right here, it is virtually like slightly fairytale.”
Hamilton’s win additionally served as a reminder of simply how good he might be when a shot at victory is on the road. Current performances relative to teammate George Russell (who now solely leads Hamilton by a single level within the drivers’ championship) led some to query his motivation, however his capability to carry off Verstappen and Lando Norris within the last stint of the race was a reminder of the ability and willpower of the seven-time champion.
It is maybe no shock this one meant greater than the earlier 103.
“That is the longest stint that I’ve not had a win, 945 days, and a number of emotion has collected over that point,” Hamilton stated. “So this one feels prefer it may very well be probably the most particular ones for me … if not probably the most particular one.”